ImUrOBGYN Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Apple IIe, green/black monitor, 80 column card with an extra 56K of RAM bumping it to 128. Two 5.25 floppy drives. My mom taught business english (typing, short hand, etc...) and needed to learn to use a PC before she had to start teaching them. I took it over in short order and was the only family member to touch it for years. My first PC I bought was in college. 486DX 33MHz, 1 Meg VESA video card, 8 whole megs of RAM, 100 MB hard disk, 2400KB modem. Even had the TURBO button. It was SMOKING for the time. A friend asked me "Oh my god man, what are you going to do with all that space?" lol I forgot all about the turbo button. Holy shit, how could I? I had one on the samsung, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted May 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 I had a Trash80 mobile took 6 double A's If i remember. I carried it around school and took notes. Fuck um I got shit for it but I didn't care. But it was super outdated when I got it I was just happy to have something i could take some notes on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted May 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 The turbo button was FUCKING EPIC. I would straight up hit it on someone before they started play doom and they would be crying about being slow until they looked over and seen there 66 said 33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiumss Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 Commodore Vic 20 with tape drive and 300 baud modem then a Commodore 64c with a 5 1/4 drive and a MPS 1200 Dot Matrix Printer. My first real PC was a Pentium 133 with 16 MB ram and a 1.6 GB drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS69 Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 Commodore VIC 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 Apple IIc+. I could buy a server now for what that Oregon Trail playing SOB cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 386 16Mhz 40MB hard drive. 3.5 and 5.25 floppys 16.6 modem if I remember correctly. Running some version of DR-DOS, and had Windows 3.1. Can't recall how much ram it had, but it wasn't much. It was cool back then at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco-REX Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 Leading Edge Model D 256K RAM dual 512K floppy drives (I was stylin') CGA and Monochrome outputs. 89 key Keyboard (no mouse back then) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 Mine was an original Apple ][ with two nice 5 1/4 floppy drives and 128k of memory. I also had a sweet NEC Dot Matrix Printer for printing of my Word Star program. all this Circa 1979-1980 Pics later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaronsToy Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Tandy 1000 !!!!!!! It was the S%$T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/images-2/atari-2600.jpg And then something running windows, Had a clock speed display and a Turbo button, that's about all i can remember of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinergi Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 TRS CoCo 80 Then I got an original Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nismopc Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Ti-99/4A (beige version) with matching cassette drive http://chung.yikes.com/~leonard/mirrors/ti99/beigeti.jpg then Atari 800xl w/64k ram - 5.25" floppy - 1200 baud modem http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/800xl/800xl.jpg then IBM 386PC w/super crappy specs. (Can't recall), but I do recall installing a 486 Pentium upgrade chip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RX-7 Addict Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Commodore 64! First computer I built myself was a Celeron 300a overclocked to 527mHz. I lost interest in overclocking/tweaking when I turned 16.. wonder why that was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Commodore 64! First computer I built myself was a Celeron 300a overclocked to 527mHz. I lost interest in overclocking/tweaking when I turned 16.. wonder why that was I did have a 400mhz celeron at one point that I had running at over 600mhz. This was on the first computer that was somewhat mine, running windows 98. That bitch was something special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6 Speed S4 Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 We had an Apple II from 1984 I think. I sold it on ebay recently for 200 bux! hahah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 I did have a 400mhz celeron at one point that I had running at over 600mhz. This was on the first computer that was somewhat mine, running windows 98. That bitch was something special. We're talking old school.. mid/early 80's shit. before you were born. :gtfo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 We're talking old school.. mid/early 80's shit. before you were born. :gtfo: If I had my old phone with me I'd dig up the pictures of the old token-ring lan equipment that was in use up until last summer at some gov building down town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 I still have my working Commodore 64 and 128. Had 2 disk drives to pirate other people's games and programs. Of course a nasty puke green monitor. And also a dot matrix printer. I had a program for writing banners where one letter was the size of one piece of paper. Worked well since the printer paper is always attached together. Also Games! I had my grandpa at the time buy a few of those game packages that came with 5 floppy disks. Each disk was loaded with a lot of games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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